"My eyes are lying on the seabed in the heart of the algae and corals. Sitting stood silent and tight pincer between heaven and earth, and staring into the abyss."
last post I promised that I would speak of Mafia. I would do this by adopting a particular point of view. Not that the historian, the sociologist or the critic, but to a guy who feels the weight of this form of organized crime and should respect and admire the courage of those men in his country have found the strength to rebel. Raise your voice.
Peppino Impastato is one of them. May 9 marks the thirty-first year of his death.
Life . Giuseppe Impastato was born in Cinisi (a town in the province of Palermo) January 5, 1948 by Felicia Bartolotta Impastato and Luigi. His family knew very well the dynamics of the mafia system. Peppino speaks well of his father, in his biography:
"My father, head of the small clan and a member of a larger clan, with ideological connotations typical of a late-rural and pre-industrial civilization, had concentrated all his efforts, since my birth, in an attempt to impose on me its choices and its code behavior. It 'only been able to cut each channel of affective communication and compromise permanently any possibility of linear expansion of my subjectivity. "
This description is sufficient to understand what Pepper had suffered in his life. Him, choosing to rebel against the mafia, led a struggle against his own family.
guess what has not been easy for him to go against his father.
Affection denied that his father was looking for him in politics. The same Peppino said they came to politics on purely emotional. It was the key to respond to a family situation became untenable. The poem
I chose to open this post reveals his loneliness. Peppino has written many others. Emerge from all anxiety and inner turmoil, the need for affection and the desire to surrender. Leave everything. In fact, he never abandoned the dream of fighting for his land, Sicily, and for his city, Cinisi, which housed one of the most ruthless Mafia bosses: Tano Badalamenti.
In his moments of loneliness and despair (Peppino was also whole days without speaking to anyone about to close his silence) alternates a rich life experiences and formative moments that coinvlogevano and praised all those that revolved around this charming personality.
For example, in 1975, the club organizes Peppino "Music and Culture", an association that promotes cultural activities and that becomes the primary point of reference for the youth of Cinisi. In those years
Cinisi, Peppino opened Radio Aut, self-financed broadcaster that offers programs and counter-satire against "landlords" and members of the local mafia.
In 1978 Peppino is a candidate in municipal elections in Cinisi with a list that has the symbol Proletarian Democracy.
Shortly before the election, on a dark night "of the Italian State, the night in via Caetani and Aldo Moro, Peppino was brutally killed: his body is torn apart by a charge of TNT placed on the railway line that connects Palermo Trapani.
No name has saved, even that of his father.
investigations. The police and the judiciary had ruled that Peppino had committed suicide. His friends knew that Sicily was not. Peppino would never come to that. Subsequently, the court in Palermo
filed the case, stressing the array of mafia crime sostendendo but the inability to find the real culprits. Over the years, However, the Centre Impastato's family and forcefully shouted Justice, claiming that it shed light on the matter.
It was a long and complicated process, detecting several times by representatives of the institutions.
Gaetano Badalamenti, Vito Palazzolo, and the murder of his deputy, will be arrested and convicted only in the early 2000s.
Peppino's legacy. Many continue to believe that Sicily is just the Mafia. Some speak of Sicily as a nation of losers, as a people who do not want to change.
Peppino's example, Falcone and Borsellino, and all those who have decided not to leave Sicily and fight for it, walking legs of thousands of young people who still believe and hope. Boys did not give up and take to the streets every year, faithfully, to remember the names of those who are an example of justice, inner strength and courage, not only in Sicily but throughout Italy.
I would like to recall here the Association "Addio Pizzo" , which years ago by a spokesman for cultural reform against the Mafia. To compose it are boys and girls, men and women who identify with the phrase "An entire people who pay protection money is a people without dignity" : The purpose of the institution, in fact, is to combat all forms of racketeering and extortion.
The story of Peppino: movies, music. The story of the young Sicilian has affected many intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers. His courage could not and can not be concealed. A few years ago he released film "The Hundred Steps by Marco Tullio Giordana.
Here I propose one of the final sequences, where a friend of Peppino is unleashed in a heartfelt and speaks of his close friend.
On many occasions it comes to Peppino in Palermo and all those who paid with his life the courage of truth. In schools, the streets, the parade in a few days that crowd the streets of Palermo to remember the victims of the Mafia. To accompany the boys down the street there is also a lyrics Modena City Ramblers, a biography of the life in music by Giuseppe Impastato.
last post I promised that I would speak of Mafia. I would do this by adopting a particular point of view. Not that the historian, the sociologist or the critic, but to a guy who feels the weight of this form of organized crime and should respect and admire the courage of those men in his country have found the strength to rebel. Raise your voice.
Peppino Impastato is one of them. May 9 marks the thirty-first year of his death.
Life . Giuseppe Impastato was born in Cinisi (a town in the province of Palermo) January 5, 1948 by Felicia Bartolotta Impastato and Luigi. His family knew very well the dynamics of the mafia system. Peppino speaks well of his father, in his biography:
"My father, head of the small clan and a member of a larger clan, with ideological connotations typical of a late-rural and pre-industrial civilization, had concentrated all his efforts, since my birth, in an attempt to impose on me its choices and its code behavior. It 'only been able to cut each channel of affective communication and compromise permanently any possibility of linear expansion of my subjectivity. "
This description is sufficient to understand what Pepper had suffered in his life. Him, choosing to rebel against the mafia, led a struggle against his own family.
guess what has not been easy for him to go against his father.
Affection denied that his father was looking for him in politics. The same Peppino said they came to politics on purely emotional. It was the key to respond to a family situation became untenable. The poem
I chose to open this post reveals his loneliness. Peppino has written many others. Emerge from all anxiety and inner turmoil, the need for affection and the desire to surrender. Leave everything. In fact, he never abandoned the dream of fighting for his land, Sicily, and for his city, Cinisi, which housed one of the most ruthless Mafia bosses: Tano Badalamenti.
In his moments of loneliness and despair (Peppino was also whole days without speaking to anyone about to close his silence) alternates a rich life experiences and formative moments that coinvlogevano and praised all those that revolved around this charming personality.
For example, in 1975, the club organizes Peppino "Music and Culture", an association that promotes cultural activities and that becomes the primary point of reference for the youth of Cinisi. In those years
Cinisi, Peppino opened Radio Aut, self-financed broadcaster that offers programs and counter-satire against "landlords" and members of the local mafia.
In 1978 Peppino is a candidate in municipal elections in Cinisi with a list that has the symbol Proletarian Democracy.
Shortly before the election, on a dark night "of the Italian State, the night in via Caetani and Aldo Moro, Peppino was brutally killed: his body is torn apart by a charge of TNT placed on the railway line that connects Palermo Trapani.
No name has saved, even that of his father.
investigations. The police and the judiciary had ruled that Peppino had committed suicide. His friends knew that Sicily was not. Peppino would never come to that. Subsequently, the court in Palermo
filed the case, stressing the array of mafia crime sostendendo but the inability to find the real culprits. Over the years, However, the Centre Impastato's family and forcefully shouted Justice, claiming that it shed light on the matter.
It was a long and complicated process, detecting several times by representatives of the institutions.
Gaetano Badalamenti, Vito Palazzolo, and the murder of his deputy, will be arrested and convicted only in the early 2000s.
Peppino's legacy. Many continue to believe that Sicily is just the Mafia. Some speak of Sicily as a nation of losers, as a people who do not want to change.
Peppino's example, Falcone and Borsellino, and all those who have decided not to leave Sicily and fight for it, walking legs of thousands of young people who still believe and hope. Boys did not give up and take to the streets every year, faithfully, to remember the names of those who are an example of justice, inner strength and courage, not only in Sicily but throughout Italy.
I would like to recall here the Association "Addio Pizzo" , which years ago by a spokesman for cultural reform against the Mafia. To compose it are boys and girls, men and women who identify with the phrase "An entire people who pay protection money is a people without dignity" : The purpose of the institution, in fact, is to combat all forms of racketeering and extortion.
The story of Peppino: movies, music. The story of the young Sicilian has affected many intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers. His courage could not and can not be concealed. A few years ago he released film "The Hundred Steps by Marco Tullio Giordana.
Here I propose one of the final sequences, where a friend of Peppino is unleashed in a heartfelt and speaks of his close friend.
On many occasions it comes to Peppino in Palermo and all those who paid with his life the courage of truth. In schools, the streets, the parade in a few days that crowd the streets of Palermo to remember the victims of the Mafia. To accompany the boys down the street there is also a lyrics Modena City Ramblers, a biography of the life in music by Giuseppe Impastato.
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